The Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation is the
seasonal review of science fact and science fiction. Formerly the (1987-1997)
annual (paper) magazine distributed at the British national SF convention and European SF
convention. Today its three principal internet editions come out in the northern hemisphere's
academic year: spring, summer and autumn.

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New up...

Most recently added (mid-March) is the first of four one-page, short, SF story PDFs of the year that are our selection of among the best of Nature 'Futures' stories of 2018. (Meanwhile, an archive of our past choices as to 'Best of Nature 'Futures'' is here.) Enjoy.

Forthcoming

Late-April will see our edition for the summer*. Note, this is a little later than our usual mid-April posting date. This is because Easter is late this year and so is the announcement of this year's Hugo Award short-list, which we always report. We plan to post 25th April (irrespective of whether the Hugo administrators have made their announcement). However, some early article and review postings will be linked to from, and for our few die-hard followers on, Twitter.
* 'Summer' here being the northern hemisphere, academic year summer.

The edition for the summer will contain the usual large SF & science news page covering books, film, television and publishing as well as general science, the biosciences and space sciences. Additionally, there will be: another in our series of scientist cum professional SF author articles on their top ten science heroes; a 52-week cinema box office analysis of the top SF/F/H films of the year to Easter; and our annual science and SF, exotica whimsy round-up from Gaia.

Most recently added

v29(7) 2012.3.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

The Preprint: Time to Publish (1-page PDF short story) - J. W. Armstrong
Discovering the true nature of time -- fundamental to reality -- is something that might not want to be shared...(If you like this story then you can support promulgating the author's work by re-Tweeting.)

Best Science Fiction of Past Years - Possibly? – Newly created archive page
(This last is because in recent years, in our spring news for fun, we give our suggestions as to the best SF/F/H novels and films of the previous year. All well and good. Yet, though it is only -- we stress -- a bit of fun, invariably nearly every year we cite a work or two that goes on to be short-listed and/or win a major SFaward. So we thought it about time we collected these in one place with a note at the foot of each year's entry as to which went on to garner a major award.)If perchance you like the effort for this edition then feel free, for a second, to Facebook share or re-Tweet.

v28(7) 2018.12.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

Sparrowfall: The city never sleeps (1-page PDF short story) - Robert Dawson
The AI keeps the city immaculate. But does everyone -- even the person that created it -- appreciate it?(If you like this story then you can support promulgating the author's work by re-Tweeting.)